Anyone use actinic supplementation with 400W MHs?

[wickedfrags]

Not sure who would suggested refraining from actinics on your system........what possible reason could there be???

Plan them into your system, and should you not be pleased with the colour spectrum with the halides on, simply run them for a dawn to dusk effect. You may change bulbs later and run them, who knows.

Also be mindful that different ballasts will fire XM bulbs differently, meaning one may produce more blue/white light than another.

Personlly, I have used 400W XMs on Maxkor ballasts with VHO actinics for 3 years and am pleased with their performance and colour. At them same time I do not recommend the Maxkors as IME they have proven not to be reliable.

Originally Posted by bv_reefer

i was wondering the same thing, i want to go with the 400 watt-XM bulb at 14K but i'm starting to think that the intensity from the bulb will just cover the actinics, so at the moment i think i'll just go with 20K, alot of people have just told me to refrain from actinics if i get a good 14K bulb, but with my past few experiences with 14K's they have'nt been blue enough